Chapter Meeting - A View from the Bench

Here comes the Judge. The Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime is pleased to announce the featured speaker at the February 5, 2022, meeting will be Judge Lee E. Haworth. The meeting will be held at the Fruitville Public Library, 100 Apex Road · Sarasota, Florida

Judge Lee E. Haworth was born and raised in our area. After attending law school, he went to work for the State Prosecutor’s office where he became chief prosecutor in just four years and went on to join the Circuit Court bench. Then came the first Gulf War. During that conflict, Judge Haworth, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, was deployed to Kuwait City (an active war zone) to help repatriate prisoners of war through Saudi Arabia and back to Iraq, where they would be tried for their crimes. Following the first Gulf war, he returned to Florida and resumed a “normal’ career as a Circuit Court Judge until the 2007 recession hit. He was appointed Chief Judge during the recession.
Some of the cases Judge Haworth worked on when he was an Assistant State Attorney was John Waterman, John Troy, Glen Chambers Walker family murders, and Henry Lorenzo Payne.

This event is a hybrid in-person and Zoom meeting. There will be a member lunch following the meeting at Gecko’s.